Word: rhineland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unfortunately, the essence is a dull epigram. "Love the world," Mann's hero cries, "and the world will love you." The statement expresses the mercantile theory of morals, and Mann's man (Henry Bookholt), faithfully represented on the screen, is intended to embody it. Born in the Rhineland, Felix Krull begins life as the son of a somewhat shady operator who manufactures phony champagne. Deftly dodging the draft with a feigned fit of epilepsy, Felix lights out for Paris to live by his wits. He rehearses them at the border. When a wealthy woman, Mme. Houpflé (Susi...
Cued Films. To Martin and Heinrich, small boys in a Rhineland city, the war is like a persistent, annoying noise heard from a distance. The war means the NAZIS-whom Uncle Albert called terrible, but who are described by their schoolteachers as NOT so BAD. It means the rubble of the city that was being swiftly replaced by angular, modern buildings. Martin and Heinrich would just as soon forget the war, and so would their elders, bowed by a dead weight of memory and guilt. Martin's mother Nella, a blonde beauty who looks "exactly like the women pictured...
Free & Easy. In any era, the black-bearded Rhineland revolutionary and the squeaky-voiced Whig editor would have made improbable bedfellows. The Tribune, as Hale explains, was a "great New York family newspaper dedicated to the support of Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, temperance, dietary reform, Going West and ultimately, Abraham Lincoln." Marx, arrogant, embittered, exiled from his native Germany, was dedicated to the overthrow of 19th century capitalism...
...should be remembered that a similar position was taken by the Western powers in 1936 when Hitler occupied the Rhineland. Talks and conferences were held, but the occupation went unpunished, which emboldened Hitler to perform more similar acts, eventually leading to World...
...German press, on the whole, restrained in its treatment of G.I. lapses. This era of good feeling was now in jeopardy. "Gangsters and sex maniacs who still today believe they can treat our wives and daughters as game are undesired here," editorialized the sober official gazette of Rhineland-Palatinate...